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N" 177.— CONTENTS. 



Notes : _ Page 



Gleaniuge for the History of Bartholomew Fair.— No. I ., by Dr. 



Rimbault 409 



ClippingtheCoinoftheRealm.by W. H. Hart - - - 412 



Anderson Paoers No. 4., by C. D. Lamont - - - 412 



Cromwell and Nicholas Lambe, by C. W. Bingham - - 413 



Priors of Bushmead, Co. Bedfordshire, by Joseph Rlx - - 414 



MiNoii .N'liTKs : — Photographing Sound — " Execution of Judas" 

 _ The Poet Burns — An Irish Deathbed Scene, &c. - - 414 



Steel Pens, by J. H. Tan Lennep - - - - - 415 



Minor Qukrirs : _ Hymns for the Holy Communion — Sir Thomas 

 Gresham's Journal MS. — Marks of Cadency —Churches dedi- 

 cated to St. Clement— Clerical Labours : Whitefleld, &c. - 415 



Minor Qceries with Answers : — Gordon Ballad — The Wal- 

 dcnses- "Poems and Essays," by a Lady -Coverdale's Bible - 418 



Rkpliks: — 



Pretender's Blue Ribbon, by R. Almack - - - - 419 



William of Wykeham 420 



William Coddington, by P. Hutchinson - . - - 421 



Cockade, by JlIiii Maclean, &c. - - - - - 421 



Paraphrases used in the Scotch Kirk - - - - 422 



BErtiRs TO Minor Qoeries: — Carthaginian Passage in Plautus— 

 John Rutty. M.D. — Nathaniel Hooke, the Roman Historian — 

 Quotation Wanted — uld Style— Note on Mr. Fronde's " His- 

 tory of England," &c. 423 



Notes on Books, &c. - - - - - - - 427 



GLEANINGS FOB THE HISTORY OF BARTHO- 

 LOMEW FAIR. 



Upon turning over the leaves of Mr. Morley's 

 recent volume upon Bartholomew Fair, I was 

 struck by the omission of a number of " celebri- 

 ties" who have borne part, at different periods, in 

 the great city saturnalia. I also observed many 

 mistakes occasioned by a want of that intimate 

 knowledge of the subject without which it was 

 almost impossible to avoid falling into occasional 

 errors. I have briefly jotted down a few " omis- 

 sions " and " corrections," in the hopes that they 

 will find favour in the eyes of some of the " least- 

 learned" readers of'N. & Q." 



Passing over the early part of Mr. Morley's 

 book, I shall merely remark that it would have 

 been more interesting, and certainly more to the 

 purpose, if the author had left much of his early 

 chapters " unwritten," and devoted more space to 

 the "Fair!" The Elizabethan literature would 

 have yielded him many interesting passages, and 

 amongst them the following notice of Rayer or 

 Rahere, which is valuable as showing the popular 

 opinion of the founder of the Fair at the end of 

 the sixteenth century : — 



" And at that Time there liued in London a Musician 

 of great Reputation, named Reior, who kept his Seruants 

 in such costly Garments that they might seenie to come 

 hefore any Prince. Their Coates were all of one Colour; 

 and, it is said, that afterward the Nobility of this Land, 

 noting it for a seemely Sight, vsed in like IManer to 

 Keepe their Men all in one Liuer^'. This Reior was the 

 most skilfuUest Musician that liued at that Time, whose 

 Wealth was uery great, so that all the Instruments 

 whereon his Seruants plaid, were richly garnished with 



Studdes of Siluer, and some Gold : the Bowes belonging 

 to their Violines were all likewise of pure Siluer. Hee 

 was also for his Wisdome called to great Office in the 

 Cit}', who also builded (at his owne Cost) the Priory 

 and Hospitall of S.Bartholomew in Smith field." — Thomas 

 of Reading ; or the sixe worthie Yeomen of the West. By 

 Thomas Deloney (printed before the year 1600). 



I shall not dwell upon notices of this kind, which 

 are abundant, but proceed to matter more inti- 

 mately connected with the subject. 



The pranks and conceits of Mat. Coppinger are 

 too remarkable to be passed over in silence in the 

 annals of the Fair. He wrote a volume of poems 

 calculated for the meridian of the. times in which 

 he lived, and published it in 1682, with a dedica- 

 tion to the Duchess of Portsmouth. Many are 

 the cheats and rogueries related of this " Bartho- 

 lomev/ hero," who ignobly finished his days "upon 

 Tyburn-tree" /or stealing a gold watch and seven 

 sovereigns ! Mr. Morley ought to have seen 



"An Account of the Life, Conversation, Birth, Educa- 

 tion, Pranks, Projects, Exploits, and Merry Conceits of 

 the Famously Notorious Mat. Coppinger, once a Player 

 in Bartholomew Fair, and since turned bully of the town; 

 who, receiving sentence of death at the Old Bailey on 

 the 23rd of Februar3', was executed at Tvburn on the 

 27th, 1695. London, Printed for T. Hobs, 1695." 



Contemporary with Coppinger was the cele- 

 brated Count Haynes, the learned Doctor Haynes, 

 or, in plain language, Joe Haynes, the practical- 

 joking droll-player. In 1688, our hero set up a 

 booth in Smithfield-rounds, where he acted a new 

 droll called The Whore of Babylon, or the Devil 

 and the Pope. According to Tony Aston, 



" Joe being sent for by Judge Polixfen, and soundly 

 rated for presuming to put the pontiff into such bad com- 

 pany, replied, that he did it out of respect to his Holiness ; 

 for whereas many ignorant people believed the Pope to 

 be a blatant beast, with seven heads, ten horns, and a 

 long tail, according to the description of the Scotch par- 

 sons ! he proved him to be a comely old gentleman, in 

 snow-white canonicals, and a corkscrew wig." 



A number of " merry " stories of Joe and his 

 pranks at the Fair are told in 



" The Life of the late famous Comedian Jo. Hayns, con- 

 taining his Comical Exploits and Adventures, both at 

 Home and Abroad ; London, printed for J. Nutt, near Sta- 

 tioners' Hall, 1701." 



I should also add that there is an engraving of 

 Joe, in his character of Doctor Haynes, mounted 

 on a stage, which would have been worth repro- 

 ducing. 



Tom Dogget, that capital old comic actor, who, 

 according to Downes, " wore a farce in his face," 

 made his first bow at Bartholomew Fair, — a fact 

 apparently unknown to Mr. Morley. Her§ is one 

 of his bills : — 



" At Parker and Dogget's Booth, near Hosier Lane 

 End, during the time of Bartholomew Fair, will be 

 presented a Neio Droll, called Fkyar Bacon, ok the 

 Country Justice; with the Humours of ToUfree, the 

 Miller, and his son Ralph, Acted by Mr. Dogget. With 



